Marketing & Communications Manager
- Full time
- £35,000 – £39,000
- Hybrid: Riddle’s Court, Edinburgh/Custom House, Leith, with flexible home working & across SHBT properties.
- Closing 15th September 2026
- Advertised from 27th August 2026
- 35 hours per week.
- Riddle’s Court, Edinburgh / Custom House, Leith, with flexible home working and across SHBT properties.
Role
Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) is Scotland’s national building preservation charity, saving significant historic buildings at risk and giving them a sustainable future in their communities. We have restored over 40 buildings and raised more than £40 million, and in 2028 we reach our 50th anniversary.
The Marketing & Communications Manager is pivotal in promoting our charitable mission, telling the story of our restoration projects, and building the audiences and public profile that our work depends on. Our commercial activities, including weddings, events and venue hire, sustain that preservation work.
Reporting to the Director and Head of Operations of SHBT, working with project managers, internal stakeholders and SHBT Trustees, you will lead communications and audience development for the Trust and its projects.
This is an ideal role for a proven storyteller, communicator and marketer with experience in heritage and culture, who wants to shape how a national charity is understood, turning complex architectural and historical context into clear and effective communications campaigns that drive SHBT towards its key objectives and support for its projects across Scotland.
Key responsibilities
Marketing
- Management and delivery of SHBT’s digital presence, ensuring our values and brand identity are communicated clearly and consistently
- Build and deliver a rich content and editorial calendar, including blog posts and newsletters, in coordination with the events, projects and properties teams
- Commission and manage film and video content, briefing filmmakers and freelancers, guiding scripts and edits, and publishing across our channels
- Design and produce promotional material for our buildings, weddings and events, including brochures, leaflets and print, working in Canva or similar and briefing designers on larger pieces
- Monitor and measure the reach and impact of our activity, collating analytics and producing reports for senior management team meetings, fundraising documents and Board meetings, ensuring GDPR compliance
- Brief and work alongside retained specialists on website, design and campaign work, making sure content is supplied in good time
Communications
- Develop, manage and implement the communications strategy for key projects, activities and events, in coordination with the project managers
- Drive engagement on social media through content appropriate to each network, growing our reach and building relationships with the audiences that matter to us
- Drive media relations through media releases and arranging interviews with relevant outlets and partners
- Promote the Director of SHBT as an authority on the work of the Trust as a building preservation trust, and as an expert in the field of regeneration, across television, radio, print, social media and blogs
Knowledge & Engagement
- Work with the Development & Engagement Officer to develop and deliver online fundraising campaigns
- Represent SHBT and reach new audiences through networking and attendance at key events on behalf of the Trust
- Create and distribute listings for our knowledge and engagement events, including lectures, conferences and supporters’ events, and promote these to deliver capacity audiences
- Evaluate campaign performance and identify opportunities to improve
Other duties
- Facilitate the Marketing Working Group of staff and trustees, taking minutes and providing quarterly reports for the group and for Board meetings
- Manage marketing administration, including image permissions and licensing
- Manage the marketing budget, tracking spend across campaigns, design, print and film, and reporting on it to the senior management team
- Support fundraising, projects and engagement work where marketing and promotion can help
Person Specification
Essential
- Proven experience in marketing and communications, ideally in the heritage, culture or charity sector
- Excellent written communication, with the ability to write accurately and at pace for audiences ranging from funders and trustees to press and the public
- Strong working knowledge of digital communications, including social media and email marketing
- Experience of creating communications material, including web content, e-appeals and social media communications
- Confidence commissioning and coordinating film and video content at a basic level, including briefing suppliers and preparing short edits for social
- Experience of report writing
- Sound understanding of GDPR
- Experience of Mailchimp or similar for mass communications
- WordPress CMS experience
- An interest in historic buildings, their conservation and cultural heritage
Desirable
- Experience of the heritage sector, the work of building preservation trusts, or capital projects in receipt of public funding
- Experience developing relationships with media partners and building a network of contacts
- A clear understanding of marketing for an organisation which undertakes both charitable and commercial activities
- Experience using analytics tools and a CRM system
- Familiarity with AI tools, and an openness to how they can be used ethically to support the work of a heritage charity
- Ability to create simple designs in Canva, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite or similar.
- Experience managing budgets
Personal Qualities
- Creative and strategic thinker with a results-driven mindset
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly proactive and ability to know what needs to happen to achieve an objective without supervision
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills
- Demonstrable ability to work on your own initiative, and to meet objectives and deadlines under pressure
- Able to work outside office hours by mutual arrangement
For the right candidate, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference, and to have a lot of fun along the way.
Reports To: Director/Head of Operations
Application notes
To apply, please forward a CV and covering letter outlining why you’re a good fit for this role to recruitment@shbt.org.uk.
Closing date: 15 September.
Service Coordinator: Milestone (Edinburgh)
- Full time
- £35,111 – £35,751
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 8th September 2026
About Simon Community Scotland
Simon Community Scotland is the largest provider of homelessness services in Scotland. Our vision is for everyone to have a safe place to live, with access to the support they need. Every day we help make positive things happen for people facing extremely difficult circumstances. Everything we do is about and for people, the people we support, our staff, our partners and everyone affected by homelessness. Our values are built into every area of activity and tell the story of how people remain at the heart of Simon Community.
Day by day, person-to-person, we tailor what we offer to what people need. We are here to provide consistent, friendly and informed support so that people can explore options and take 'the next step' towards a positive future. We offer support across a range of service delivery points; Street Outreach teams, Housing First initiatives, Floating Support, Information Hubs, Managed Alcohol Program (MAP), Supported Accommodations, Emergency Accommodation, Rapid Access Accommodation, and our own rented properties. These services are delivered across many local authorities within Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Edinburgh and Perth.
We welcome people with a wide range of skills and experiences to our team. To make a difference, we need to work flexibly, with everyday leadership and a 'can-do' approach. We want to make it right and make it happen –not only for the people we support, but also for each other.
Our #OneTeam ethos is core to who we are, and it means caring for and supporting each other regardless of our role, service or location. Find out more about our services here.
Job Purpose
Working as a Service Coordinator within Simon Community Scotland’s Milestone service is a unique opportunity. You are operating at the intersection of acute clinical care, harm reduction, social prescribing and residential support.
Milestone is an intermediate care service designed for people experiencing homelessness who have complex health needs. To succeed here, your role must bridge the gap between the Safer Services (risk management and trauma-informed care) and the complex health issues (physical and psychosocial recovery). This is a great opportunity for the right person.
Service Delivery
This role will support the Service Lead at Milestone with the day-to-day delivery of the service and the development of our Safer Services Model at Milestone.
The Safer Services framework is about more than just physical safety. It focuses on psychological safety and reducing harm in a way that keeps the person at the centre.
Trauma-Informed Triage
Work with the Service Lead to ensure that Milestone operates within the Safer Services model, informing MDT decisions, creating holistic safety and wellbeing plans based on each person’s unique needs, and leading on activity coordination.
Harm Reduction Coordination
Lead on Naloxone training, overdose prevention education, and providing safety plans for people when they move on from Milestone. This includes social prescribing and community mapping.
Safe Transitions
Help remove the “cliff edge” of discharge by coordinating warm handovers between Milestone and community GP or harm reduction services, healthcare providers, and community-based services.
Coordinate SCS Pathways
Ensure the service is connected with all relevant Simon Community Scotland services, including Street Services, Housing First, VHS and Safer Communities, We See You, and StreetReads.
Job Summary
Community Mapping: “The Strengths-Based Approach”
In this role, community mapping isn’t just about making a list of nearby GPs. It’s about identifying the person’s strengths and community and healthcare options and people that offer connection without judgement.
- Community Mapping: You will support the team to sit with a person to create a literal or digital map of their “safe zones”. This includes identifying recovery cafes or services, libraries with digital hubs (like SCS’s Get Connected, Gambling Harms or Streetreads), or green spaces that support mental wellbeing.
- Service Landscapes: You will map the “warmest” routes to secondary care. For example, which pharmacies in Edinburgh are most supportive of those on Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST)?
- Which dental practices specialise in working with people with anxiety? Ensure the people we support are fully included in We See You and our Edinburgh Support Hub and Edinburgh Pathways Services.
- Safety Mapping: Under the “Safer Services” model, you will identify high-risk areas to avoid, helping the people we support plan transit routes that don’t pass through areas associated with previous trauma.
- Suitable Accommodation: Ensuring the person moves on to a suitable safe space, whatever that means to them.
- Expanding the Service Coordinator role to include community mapping, reintegration, and psychosocial activities turns the position from a clinical facilitator into a community connector for the guests at Milestone.
- In the Simon Community Scotland context, this means moving beyond just “getting healthy” to “staying healthy by belonging”.
Reintegration: The Warm Handover
Milestone is a temporary stay. Reintegration is the most important phase of the journey.
- The Transition Bridge: You will coordinate with partners like Cyrenians or The Access Place to ensure that when a person leaves, their health momentum doesn’t stop.
- Social Prescribing: Instead of just a medical prescription, you might “prescribe” a peer-support group or a volunteering opportunity. You will physically accompany a guest to their first session to lower the “barrier of the unknown”.
- Digital Inclusion: Utilising SCS’s Get Digital model, you’d ensure that people have the hardware and the data to manage their own health appointments and stay connected to their new community assets post-discharge.
Psychosocial Activities: Building Social Capital
Psychosocial support at Milestone focuses on the idea that recovery is easier when life is full of meaningful
alternatives to harmful activities.
- Therapeutic Connection to Nature & Arts: You might lead or coordinate sessions that allow for non-verbal expression of trauma, such as gardening or outdoor activities.
- Community and Support Groups: Facilitating groups that focus on the MAT Standards (Medication Assisted Treatment), helping people understand their rights and empowering them to take an active role in their clinical decisions.
- Life Skills for Independence: Practical psychosocial work like “Cooking for Health” on a budget or “Sleep Hygiene” workshops. These activities reduce the anxiety of returning to independent living. These will be co-designed and co-created in partnership with the people we support.
Admission
Health Outcome Focus: Acute medical stabilisation; BBV screening, attending appointments, transport and advocacy, holistic healthcare planning and safety plans.
Psychosocial/Mapping Focus:Creating a “Safety Map” & building trust.
Mid-Stay
Health Outcome Focus: Medication adherence; chronic condition management.
Psychosocial/Mapping Focus: Engaging in group activities; identifying community assets.
Discharge
Health Outcome Focus: GP registration; “Warm” clinical handover. Warm handovers for health and housing services.
Psychosocial/Mapping Focus: First visit to a community hub; digital health setup.
Post-Stay
Health Outcome Focus: Reduced A&E presentations.
Psychosocial/Mapping Focus: Enhanced community networks and engagement. Sustained social connection; peer support engagement.
Top job! Finance Manager
- Full time or Part time
- up to £60,907
- Hybrid: Thistle House, Edinburgh
- Closing 28th August 2026
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland is recruiting an experienced and motivated Finance Manager to lead our finance function and play a key role in supporting our mission to protect and promote the human rights of people with mental illness, learning disabilities, dementia and related conditions.
As an independent statutory body, we ensure that care, treatment and support across Scotland are lawful, ethical and person centred. This is an exciting opportunity to join a values driven organisation with a strong public service ethos.
About the Role
The Finance Manager is the most senior finance professional within the Commission, responsible for delivering robust financial management, statutory compliance, payroll oversight, and strategic financial advice. You will oversee an annual budget of approximately £7m and act as the organisation’s subject matter expert for all financial matters.
Working closely with the Head of Culture & Corporate Services, you will lead on:
• Financial reporting, analysis and advice to the CEO, executive leadership team and the Board
• Annual budget setting and multi-year forecasting
• Year-end accounts and external/internal audit
• Payroll and the annual pay award process in line with Scottish Government Pay Policy
• Financial controls, policies, procedures and risk management
• Procurement compliance and value for money
• Managing the shared services arrangement with Scottish Government (Oracle)
This role offers significant autonomy, influence and the opportunity to shape financial stewardship across the organisation.
About You
We are looking for someone who brings:
• A professional accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ICAS or equivalent)
• Significant experience in public sector financial management
• Strong knowledge of the Scottish Public Finance Manual (SPFM) and Scottish Government Pay Policy
• Experience managing payroll and related processes
• Excellent analytical, communication and influencing skills
• The ability to work independently across a wide remit
• A commitment to public sector values, integrity and continuous improvement
• People management experience and familiarity with Scottish Government shared services (Oracle) is desirable.
What We Offer
• Flexibility on contracted hours, subject to a minimum commitment of 21 hours/3 days per week (0.6 FTE).
• Hybrid working
• Modern open plan office and facilities in the centre of Edinburgh
• Generous annual leave and NHS pension
• Supportive, inclusive organisational culture
• Opportunities for professional development
• A meaningful role contributing to human rights and public service in Scotland
• An organisation which is keen to continue to adapt and transform to meet the needs of the people it serves
Top job! Head of Fundraising
- Full time
- £42,000 – £50,000
- On site: Leith, Edinburgh
- Closing 11th September 2026
About Street Soccer
Street Soccer is a charity using football to create lasting change in the lives of isolated and excluded adults and young people. We run 60 sessions a week of free, inclusive and judgement-free football. These sessions provide person-centred support to players facing a number of challenges including mental health, homelessness, long term unemployment, problem substance use, criminal justice and seeking asylum. Our mission is to create hope and opportunity for all.
We support thousands of players a year on their journey to positive change by providing a safe space, trusting relationships and a sense of belonging. We fight isolation and exclusion by bringing people together, building confidence and creating supportive communities. We support people of all ages and backgrounds through relationship-based support, focusing on trust and personal development, supporting everyone to set and achieve their own goals. Thanks to the support of Street Soccer, 82% of players say that their quality of life has improved. Lived experience is at the heart of what we do, with over 80% of our staff having lived experience of the challenges our players face.
97% of players think that Street Soccer is a unique organisation. With over 16 years of experience delivering positive change through football, we are now working in more communities than ever, with city hubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and South London, as well as a network of sessions across 6 other local authorities.
Role Purpose
The Head of Fundraising leads Street Soccer's fundraising function, with responsibility for the strategic growth and diversification of income across Grants & Trusts, Philanthropy, Individual Giving, Social Enterprise (Change Centre Dundee and Kitback), Earned Income, Events, Sponsorship & Corporate Partnerships. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and sitting within the leadership team, this role develops and delivers a multi-year income strategy that supports Street Soccer's continued growth across Scotland and London. In line with our new strategic priorities, it will build the resilience and diversity of income the organisation needs to sustain its work with isolated and excluded adults and young people. The successful candidate will bring established sector knowledge and a strong network of relationships across funders, corporate partners and the wider third sector, opening doors and creating opportunities that accelerate Street Soccer's income growth. Street Soccer value work life balance and are happy to discuss part-time hours, job share and flexible working.
Senior Team Leader – Rapid Re-accommodation Welcome Centre
- Part time
- £30,122 – £31,733 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 14th September 2026
The Rapid Re-accommodation Welcome Centre provides emergency accommodation with support to anyone who would otherwise be rough sleeping in Edinburgh.
We are looking for a Senior Team Leader to assist the Project Manager in organising and running the Welcome Centre, maintaining it as a safe environment for guests, and providing hands-on support to the team across all aspects of the service. The Senior Team Leader play an active role in monitoring RRWC systems and spreadsheets, with a goal of supporting guests onto positive follow-on accommodation.
Please refer to Job Descriptions for specific tasks.
This is a fixed-term, part-time post ending on 31 March 2027.
We are looking for candidates with the following knowledge, skills and experience:
- Experience working with vulnerable and homeless people
- An understanding of mental health and addiction issues
- Ability to deal appropriately with challenging behaviour
- An SVQ level 3 in Care/Promoting Independence or equivalent is desirable
- Administrative skills and experience in the use of Microsoft Office packages, especially Word, Excel and Outlook
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Flexibility to respond to a changing environment
- Ability to maintain clear & accurate records
Successful applicants for this post will require membership in the PVG scheme.
As Bethany is a Christian organisation, this post carries an Occupational Requirement in line with the Equality Act 2010. Applicants should have and be able to evidence a live and active Christian faith and commitment.
We are committed to helping our employees flourish personally and professionally. Below are a few examples of the ways we support our employees.
- Bethany provides 30 days of annual leave initially to all contracted staff, rising to a maximum of 40 days depending on length of service.
- Bethany provides enhanced payments for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
- Bethany operates a company pension scheme to which all staff are auto-enrolled, with the option to opt out. We will match any staff member’s pension contribution up to a maximum of 5%.
- Bethany provides a death-in-service benefit scheme.
- (Depending on the role) Bethany will offer optional clinical supervision in line with best practice, fully funded by Bethany.
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